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Homecoming pt. 3 | PM 1.14.23

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  1. What's going on everybody? You are now listening to the

  2. Lovequest International Church Sermon Podcast.

  3. It's a brand new season. Matter of fact, it's homecoming

  4. season. Sons and daughters are coming

  5. home. So you know what to do.

  6. Get your Bible, get your water, get some coffee, get some tea

  7. and get yourself ready to receive.

  8. The time is now and if you don't know the drill, then you better

  9. learn the motto. Did you love things, man?

  10. Lord, like bastard, why are we singing so much?

  11. To get your heart ready for the word.

  12. Come on, I need you to put your hand over your heart, and I need

  13. you to say my heart is good soil and I am ready to not just

  14. receive the word, but produce a harvest from the word.

  15. Shout out. I am so ready.

  16. Come on a little louder. I am so ready at a volume that

  17. get on your neighbors nerves say I am so ready.

  18. Born ready. Live.

  19. Ready. Walk.

  20. Ready. Talk.

  21. Ready. Move.

  22. Ready. Stand.

  23. Ready. Dress ready.

  24. Sleep ready. Wake up.

  25. Ready. I'm being ready.

  26. I was made ready I was made ready I was made ready.

  27. I was made ready I was made ready.

  28. I was more time. I'm ready.

  29. Live ready. Walk ready.

  30. Talk Ready. Move.

  31. Ready. Stand.

  32. Ready. Dress.

  33. Ready. Sleep ready.

  34. Wake up ready. I'm being ready.

  35. I'm stay ready. I'm stay ready.

  36. I'm stay ready. I'm stay ready.

  37. Joseph replied, Don't be afraid. Do I act for God?

  38. Don't you see? You planned evil against me, but

  39. God used the same plans for my good.

  40. I want you all to see this. He didn't say God changed plans

  41. he had to use, and he loves to use the same plans.

  42. So whatever tried to steal your sanity, God's going to use the

  43. same plans. Whatever tried to destroy your

  44. family, God's going to use the same plans.

  45. Whatever tried to inflict your body with sickness, God's going

  46. to use the same plans. Whatever tried to knock you out,

  47. discredit you? Whatever.

  48. Persecution. The same haters, the same

  49. persecution, the same rejection, the same abandonment, the same

  50. rape, the same molestation, the same foster home situation, the

  51. same injustice. God is going to use the same

  52. plans. The question is, can you make it

  53. through the plan? Can you understand that?

  54. Anything that is and has, was and about to happen to you is

  55. happening because God allowed it.

  56. He allowed you to almost lose your mind.

  57. He allowed you to almost kill yourself.

  58. He allowed you to almost lose everything.

  59. He allowed you to. Almost have a successful suicide

  60. attempt. He allows you to almost become

  61. an alcoholic and never break the habit.

  62. Almost addicted to porn. Almost let it take you out,

  63. almost make you homeless. But he says no, no, no, no, no.

  64. You only get to almost because I have to establish it is what it

  65. is. I gotta let it get stinky.

  66. I I gotta let it get to the point where doctors can't help

  67. your spouse, can't help the pastor seemingly can't help the

  68. word ain't good enough. Quite frankly.

  69. I gotta let Lazarus get past helping.

  70. I I gotta, I gotta wait until everybody is doubting me.

  71. And right at the 4th day when it looks impossible, when you don't

  72. even hear the people that say it's too late, I can't help

  73. them. You don't even hear the other

  74. spouse who is saying I don't want to be in this marriage no

  75. more. I got to let it get to to, to to

  76. rotten, to bottom, to to hurting, to piercing, to even

  77. question. God does not find it getting to

  78. questioning him. It's like, quite frankly, that's

  79. a pretty cool place, 'cause you just are asking me, am I who I

  80. say I am? Can you really do what you did

  81. before? Can you do it right now?

  82. Are you the same God you notice? These aren't necessarily

  83. questions of doubt, but now he's used trauma to cause you to seek

  84. him. Those are questions of seeking.

  85. Those are quite that's probably you don't feel good, but finally

  86. you're talking to him. So to you, it feels like you're

  87. giving up on God. But if he was giving up, why

  88. would you even talk to him? Why would you even care if he's

  89. the same God? See, doubt is tricky because

  90. doubt can make you think you've given up.

  91. But sometime God will use your doubt as the means of a contrite

  92. heart, and all of a sudden you find yourself.

  93. God is showing you the blueprint for after he break you through,

  94. how He wants you to seek him. Oh oh, the same way you sought

  95. Him when you was in trouble. When he brings you to the other

  96. side of the Red Sea, seek him the same way.

  97. See, sometimes being at the bottom, it begins to cause you

  98. to create new habits of seeking. See how bad do you really want

  99. it? Everybody talk about they want

  100. to see revival, but how many people want to be the sacrifice?

  101. Or you just want to attend a revival everybody laid down

  102. their life for. Oh, you want to see revival come

  103. a couple nights during the 40 days while we're here seeking

  104. God's face. What I do understand is a lot of

  105. people don't really want to see revival.

  106. They want, they want us. You You think revival is God's

  107. bailout plan? No.

  108. This is the dangers for when revival comes, responsibility

  109. comes. Do you really want God to touch

  110. you? Who much is given?

  111. So ask yourself, do you really want breakthrough?

  112. Because on the other side of breakthrough is responsibility

  113. not back to normal? Because if you go back to normal

  114. after breakthrough 7 times stronger is coming.

  115. So you think you depressed. Now let them break you through

  116. and you go back. You see, Joseph?

  117. You say. Nah.

  118. Nah, Nah Nah Nah no. No, no, no need to apologize.

  119. You should have been here this morning, but it's not too late.

  120. You can go listen to the sermon this morning.

  121. I advise you. I advise you.

  122. You listen to everything else. Put the sermon in rotation.

  123. You need the word. He said no, don't apologize.

  124. I know you tried to kill me. I want y'all to pay attention to

  125. something Joseph is now serving. Everybody who made his life

  126. hell. Everybody that made his life

  127. hell is now coming to him because they have a need.

  128. They tried to kill his dream but didn't know that God gave him

  129. the dream for them. I won't even go there because

  130. you just got to go listen to this morning.

  131. But he says what you meant for evil, God is going to turn it

  132. around for good. No weapon formed against me

  133. shall prosper. No need to change the script.

  134. When God is about to flip the script, is that the administer

  135. administer to anybody? This morning I received this

  136. word for myself. Lord says that the appointed

  137. time has come for your prophetic promises to be fulfilled.

  138. There is a specific time in everyone's lifetime where God is

  139. about to fulfill prophecy. I don't know.

  140. I don't know about you. But I know I'm stepping into

  141. some big words that's been spoken over my life and I just

  142. believe God. He says now is the time, right?

  143. He says now is the time. Shout out now is the time.

  144. It is about that time. It is about that time.

  145. Ecclesiastes reminds us that there's a season and a appointed

  146. time for everything, a time for every delight and event purpose

  147. under heaven we see Acts 17. He sets the boundaries of people

  148. and nations determining their appointed times in.

  149. History. In other words, the family you

  150. was born in wasn't an accident. I'm sorry you like California

  151. better, but if God wanted you to be raised or born in California,

  152. guess what? But for some reason, he wanted

  153. you to be raised in the freezing cold.

  154. Now, let me tell you, because you was raised here, you don't

  155. know if you would like California.

  156. You only like California because you don't like here, right?

  157. It's very dangerous when you like something because you don't

  158. like something else, right? That's how some of you got

  159. married and picked a friend because you didn't like that

  160. type. That that's not a good way to

  161. find out what you do like because then the motivation is

  162. not pure, right? God.

  163. God intentionally had you raised, born wherever you was

  164. raised and born. Move wherever you was moved and

  165. wherever God has called you to be.

  166. There is everything you need in that place.

  167. Your blessing. It has a location, Galatians 6

  168. says In due time, the appointed season.

  169. Keep your courage. The fullness of time is here and

  170. now revival has landed. Angels have been dispatched.

  171. I want y'all to notice some of you guys this first time you've

  172. heard this word right here, this this.

  173. But some of you a second time. Third time for some of you is

  174. like the 20th time. We got this, we got we.

  175. The Lord gave us this. What?

  176. How long ago? Strathcona.

  177. You know, why are we still saying the same word after four

  178. years? Because it's a word that he

  179. promises to be fulfilled. See, when God speaks something

  180. into your life, you have a response.

  181. That's what I'm saying to you won't revival.

  182. Revival comes after stewarding the seed He gave you.

  183. Angels have been dispatched, promises have been released, and

  184. the enemy has been devoured. It is really go time.

  185. Go time means that I have permission to go.

  186. This is what you have to understand.

  187. When you're at a red light and then you get a green light, you

  188. have permission to go. Your Your insurance works best

  189. when you are the person that has been struck and you were

  190. following permission. Insurance covers the legal

  191. right, not the violation. Then we're up the chapstick

  192. while you say lie on that one, OK?

  193. And most of us want God to cover our violations.

  194. The reason why it feels like he's not helping you overcome

  195. what you got into because he never told you to get into it in

  196. the 1st place. So the same way you crawled in,

  197. you got to crawl out. But there's a grace to crawl.

  198. So take the grace to crawl and trying to get grace to run.

  199. Because what God is telling you he is trying, He can't rush you

  200. out of something that you lived in for so long because you have

  201. to unlearn some stuff. See, see.

  202. So not only do you have permission to go in the season

  203. of go time, but you have a legal right.

  204. And when you have a legal right to go, there is a word, there is

  205. a law that covers your goal. OK, Lord, look, I want you to

  206. pray this. Lord, please give me eyes to see

  207. and give me. Ears to hear.

  208. Pass what this man is saying, Lord, I need revelation right

  209. now. I just said something very

  210. important. When there is an announcement,

  211. it's go time, right? Let me ask you this, the way

  212. some of you might be looking. Do you look at a green light

  213. like that? Yes, you do.

  214. Have anybody ever sat at a green light?

  215. And most of the time you sat at a green light because you were

  216. what, distracted? And has anybody ever, what

  217. happens at the people sit, what are they doing?

  218. They're they're what? Honking.

  219. You see I'm honking because I'm having to remind you, you have

  220. permission to go in this season. Understand.

  221. So, but you're distracted. Some of you can't really hear go

  222. because in your mind you responded to a text and it's

  223. more important to get back to that person or find out what

  224. that person said or look at the score of the game or then to

  225. focus on. God said it's go time and I have

  226. a legal right. I spent a season at my red light

  227. watching. Others have they season of a

  228. green light right when you sit, just watch traffic going.

  229. Everybody else gets to go. Are you tired of sit?

  230. Have you ever set out a red light, like a long red light?

  231. Have you ever set at the red lights and then it only then it

  232. turned green and only two cars get to going.

  233. You you was happy you was ready to go.

  234. Hey, that's the season 2 and sometimes you think you ready to

  235. go. But the way that light is

  236. scheduled. Hey, the way the light is

  237. scheduled, as frustrating as you as it is, there's a grace for

  238. two cars to go. But man, can you celebrate that

  239. you next? So for some of y'all, it's a

  240. green light and it's time for you to go through the light.

  241. Thank you, Holy Spirit. For some of you, it's a green

  242. light for you, but it's just going to get you closer to your

  243. turn. Either way, everybody body

  244. making progress in this season. Everybody is making progress in

  245. this season. See, because you don't want to,

  246. you don't want to go through the light and deal with what the

  247. people going through the light is about to deal with.

  248. See, the beautiful part about a red light is for the most part

  249. you safe and if somebody rear ends you, you're covered.

  250. You get what I'm saying. But if you ain't paying

  251. attention and you doing the rear ending, 'cause you're in a rush

  252. and you got your foot on the gas when you should be slowing down,

  253. y'all with me. This is a green light season,

  254. but you can't be focused on my green light because a lot of

  255. times you can focus on two cars ahead of you and not the one in

  256. front of you. You going to fool around and

  257. rear end somebody, You get what I'm saying, It's green light

  258. season. It's not try to make it through

  259. a yellow light season, it is green light, so you have a legal

  260. right to move forward, not run through stuff.

  261. God's plan. God's time.

  262. God's plan has a proper time, acceptable time, fullness of

  263. time, due season, and a mandated time.

  264. We are in a mandated time that nobody can stop you from moving

  265. forward. I'm telling.

  266. You you might see way down the street, but we're not trying to

  267. rush through a yellow light to get way down the street.

  268. Because if you get way down the street in this season, you going

  269. to show up at a corner that don't got your stuff.

  270. See, when I show up to where I'm called to show up, my stuff

  271. going to be there because I'm right on time, right.

  272. So there's some things that got God is clearing traffic and he's

  273. there. There's a street you call to

  274. that's still under construction. I'm talking.

  275. I'm talking to somebody. Let me, let me, let me, let me,

  276. let me. Yeah, please, please look at

  277. your neighbor and say you really got to go listen to the day's

  278. sermon tomorrow or Tuesday. I didn't say that many words.

  279. I didn't say that many words. That was not a conversation.

  280. It was just a statement. OK, All right.

  281. So we going to pick up here tonight.

  282. We going to pick up here tonight.

  283. This morning we we stopped at wow, that's so good.

  284. The the children, the children of the Red Sea short.

  285. We'll we'll do that. They got across and on the other

  286. side they begin to praise the Lord and they made it through a

  287. very traumatic experience and a very traumatic pastime.

  288. You follow? And they they get out of

  289. slavery. They're faced with either going

  290. back or they're faced with the impossible.

  291. That is an amazing season to be in.

  292. Scary, but amazing when you can go back here.

  293. Here's the idea. So my family, we're immigrants

  294. here, OK? And so as we work on our

  295. permanent residence all, all of that stuff, right, we, we have

  296. work permit and things of that nature, OK.

  297. And we came here by faith. We were sent here by nobody but

  298. God. And I can't get another job.

  299. In other words, I either go back home for my provision or stand

  300. here. The children of Israel can go

  301. back home because Egypt was a home or they can face the

  302. impossible. Why is that the best place to

  303. be? Because God got to do something

  304. He has got. You have gotten in a place in

  305. your life where if God don't make a way, ain't no way going

  306. to happen. That is a scary place for most

  307. people. That's why you got to be in

  308. control. So not many people.

  309. You'd rather stay in the Egypt and work for the world than to

  310. stand on the shore and face the impossible and let God split the

  311. sea for you. And that's OK.

  312. Not everybody is called to walk across the split sea, but boy is

  313. that such a place where it's primed for miracles and signs

  314. and wonders. So at this place and they go

  315. across and and they begin a praise party.

  316. And then they not by choice but have to fast for three days.

  317. They couldn't find no water for three days.

  318. And then God says Moses. He didn't say stick out the rod.

  319. He says Stick out your hand right?

  320. Close to sea. And then he gets to Mara and

  321. it's a it's bitter water, it's a bitter season.

  322. And then God points him to a stick and he says, just throw it

  323. in there. And the bitter water was turned

  324. sweet. God made what was undrinkable.

  325. Now we can sip and there's some bitter stuff that God is about

  326. to turn around. No, no, no, no.

  327. Same. Hey, hey.

  328. You ready? Same circumstances the devil

  329. will use for evil. God's going to use the same same

  330. bitter water I'm using. I'm just going to turn it sweet

  331. Yet no. No no filter, no no 9.5.

  332. I got better than 9.5 Alkaline not.

  333. This is as alkalinized as it can get.

  334. Oh, you could have found a waterfall or something but no.

  335. We going to use I'm I'm leading you to bitter water.

  336. Can you find people in a bitter place.

  337. And because of what I put on your life you can turn it to

  338. sweep right everybody looking for the finished product.

  339. Instead of understanding that what God has put into you.

  340. He wants you to use what you got and turn the situation all the

  341. way around. Get up in here.

  342. And we going to turn the garage around.

  343. What used to be a crack house, now it's a praise house.

  344. It's a place of worship. Come on, shout out.

  345. I am anointed. And so as we celebrating and God

  346. is providing and we like whoa, we going to the other side and

  347. we going to see the promised land and they came up on this

  348. one point man we have confessed. Y'all can't say pastor.

  349. Yeah, no, no, no. I have been like we going to do

  350. this and we going to do that and we have shouted and we are

  351. believing. I don't know about you with my

  352. faith on high and we ready to do this thing and we ready and then

  353. God this morning was like yes, y'all ready.

  354. But I need you to see this part, he says.

  355. Warning, he says. Attention, he said.

  356. That's the place where I provided the water, where I

  357. turned everything right after I showed them how powerful I was.

  358. That was the place that God set rules and procedures.

  359. That's where he started testing them.

  360. Breakthrough. And I'm here to tell you the

  361. declaration of you're ready. It's not just to receive

  362. blessing, it's to pass testing. You think you've been through

  363. all of that just to come out and get blessed?

  364. No. No, no, no, no.

  365. Every season has to be. How you going to know?

  366. That you're fruitful without fruit being tested.

  367. How you going to know you stronger?

  368. You're not going to know you stronger cause ain't nothing

  369. happening and you're not about to get tempted by God.

  370. You're about to get proven in in.

  371. In other words, he's perfected you for the next season.

  372. He's about to prove to you what he's done.

  373. That's why this season the most important thing to do is stand,

  374. because as you stand you're about to see all I've been

  375. through. I'm really stronger now.

  376. All I've been through, oh, the devil can't play the same tricks

  377. on me. You ever get to that point where

  378. that person try to get that same little attitude and you like?

  379. Not today, Betty. I just.

  380. I'm not falling for that no more.

  381. I don't. I'm not affected by you no more.

  382. You can't hurt me no more. You can't 'cause me to quit no

  383. more. You can't cause me to doubt

  384. myself no more. You can't cause me to see myself

  385. lesser than what God says. I have made it through the Red

  386. Sea and now I know who I am. So this this is not a season

  387. where you're about to just just just be tested and go through.

  388. No, no, no, no. There's a level of testing for

  389. development and then there's a level of testing for proving God

  390. knows what He put in you. You don't.

  391. So in order order for you to find out you're really strong,

  392. Gideon. You can really win this war,

  393. Jeremiah. You can really speak, Daniel,

  394. all that fast and ain't for nothing.

  395. You can really walk in the lion's den and not freak out.

  396. Oh, you're not afraid like you used to be?

  397. Oh, no. You really got to get around

  398. some dope again to see that it don't tip you no more.

  399. I remember the first. I remember soon after I I put

  400. marijuana down. It wasn't about me because I

  401. tried for years. You know how y'all are.

  402. You know this is going to be the last time we've been wanting to

  403. quit for a few years. But I had God had to show me.

  404. He snaps the taste out of my mouth.

  405. So I remember one day on purpose we was walking down the street I

  406. I think Julia or something at the time.

  407. She she wasn't PJ at the time, but she was PJ on the inside,

  408. right? You gonna say she was doing

  409. something and I was in front of a like, oh, this guy came out of

  410. the weed spot or something. That's it.

  411. I want some weed and I said yeah.

  412. I just want to hold it. And that was the first time I

  413. looked at it. I held it.

  414. I smelled it. And when I smelled it, what used

  415. to go off in my body wasn't there no more.

  416. The the smell couldn't find. Yeah, you get.

  417. I'm saying like like when you can go, when you can go back

  418. around that person you was lusting over and like oh you you

  419. fine. But like you you just my sister

  420. and brother and cried like I'm I'm good.

  421. I respect you to where you where God does something in your heart

  422. towards the thing that was holding you back when when you

  423. get around that person that broke your heart and and that

  424. thing don't come up where you want to just kill them, right.

  425. So I'm letting you know in this season you gonna get around some

  426. people who really hurt you. But what you gonna find out is

  427. they can't hurt you no more. They can't hurt.

  428. You no more. And I I just want you, I just

  429. want you. When you see that man or when

  430. you see that woman and you see him and they're like hi.

  431. And they think they still got a hold on you.

  432. You like, hey, how you doing? And when the moment the Holy

  433. Spirit says see, you don't need that no more, I just want you to

  434. do a one. 2341234123412. 3/5. 123 123123112.

  435. You get what I'm saying, alright?

  436. You get what I'm saying. I want.

  437. I want you. They ain't gonna even know

  438. they're gonna like what you're doing.

  439. And you guys. Boy, if you only knew you.

  440. You. I used to be afraid of you.

  441. I you. You used to really intimidate

  442. me. But if you only knew.

  443. If you only knew. If you only know.

  444. If you only know. If you only know.

  445. All right. Right.

  446. So if you only knew like like you you not, hey, you going, you

  447. going to go to that dinner that you can't avoid with family and

  448. you're going to be sitting across the table with people

  449. that may have even molested you that may have and you going to

  450. be sitting there and just with your under the table.

  451. You're just going to be. If you only knew.

  452. If you only know. Hey, if you only know.

  453. Hey, if you only know. All right, all right, all right.

  454. So, so. So you got to get the point that

  455. that's where because a lot of times we make testing scary, but

  456. no one has to worry about a test teacher.

  457. Fe when they've, when they've went through.

  458. When they've went through like, you know the answers now this is

  459. an open book. This is an open book test.

  460. This is an open book test, he said.

  461. The scripture, the Scripture says that God won't allow me

  462. religion. One word can be tweaked like the

  463. devil did. If you test God if you know, the

  464. scripture says if God won't allow you to go through anything

  465. you can't bear. Not God won't put anything on

  466. you. There's a big difference between

  467. God putting it on you and allowing you.

  468. It's the red light God has made sure before he gave you to go to

  469. go through it. You've already passed this.

  470. You got to understand. You've passed the test in

  471. eternity. You passed the test.

  472. We're stepping into a finished work test.

  473. That's why going through tests without God is dangerous,

  474. because he's only finished what he started, not what you

  475. started. Come on see, I'll be getting

  476. stuck. I'll be getting stuck.

  477. Being stuck. So you see what he says He says.

  478. He says God said if you listen obediently to how God tells you,

  479. you notice he said he's this is where he gave them rules and

  480. procedures. So we are stepping in a season.

  481. I don't care if all your life you ain't never followed the

  482. principles of God. This is the year you actually

  483. need to get in. You can be have been disobedient

  484. for 35 years but be obedient for one year and watch the payback.

  485. This is the year. This is why you got to stay in

  486. the house and get a word. Ask anybody who's been here

  487. every night during the fast how much word I'm talking about

  488. right now. Word like God is giving

  489. instructions and strategies. I don't you know what I'm

  490. saying. Even somebody came at the last

  491. minute, 5 minutes left and they got something.

  492. This is the year that we have to really do it God's way.

  493. Keep the swag, keep your head. You know what I'm saying?

  494. We got swag and we got people with swag and all these little

  495. swag, you know what I mean? God ain't saying go put on a

  496. collar and a long skirt and a turtleneck in the turbine, even

  497. in even as how cold it is. That's too much.

  498. All right, I got to tell y'all this next series we're about to

  499. start is going to radically change your life.

  500. It's going to radically change your life.

  501. God. God said my people need to hear

  502. about holy and righteousness. They need to know that we are

  503. holy and righteous and. Holiness is not what church has

  504. made. In like you, women don't wear

  505. pants. That's not holiness, because we

  506. now have some devils in skirts. But boy, when you get this holy,

  507. don't do it. Don't do it.

  508. You know, he's calling his people back to royal royalty.

  509. If you if you're a royal people, it means you're a holy nation.

  510. You can't be a holy people, a royal people and not a holy

  511. people. And we're not just holy because

  512. he's holy. He's if we are holy because he's

  513. holy because the Bible says so. But there's a lifestyle of

  514. holiness that's actually really fun.

  515. That holy lifestyle is like you got some standards and homie

  516. can't just come in your life and just you have no, no, no, no.

  517. You see the price on holy like I'm holy, you can't find this in

  518. Fendi, a product of nothing. Fendi ain't holy.

  519. I'm holy, right. So when you put a price tag on

  520. you and it says holy, Can you imagine if you was, if you were

  521. selling yourself and you had a price tag on and and and and

  522. guys was coming over and reading it and said holy, first of all

  523. they'll say what's that? And that's when you'd be like

  524. you ain't the right. 1 You see that standard right there?

  525. Obeying His commandments and keeping all His laws, then I

  526. won't strike you with all the diseases that I inflicted on the

  527. Egyptians. I am your healer.

  528. I am God, your healer. Now bear with me.

  529. Be careful. While guarding your heart, you

  530. don't hearten your heart. Can we can we can we dive in a

  531. little bit now? Can we can we can we get serious

  532. right now? Yeah.

  533. I see you grabbing your notebooks and all this at the

  534. time. This is the right time, OK?

  535. Be your heart is so ready to receive this accountability.

  536. Be careful while you're guarding your heart.

  537. You don't harden your heart. And a lot of people in here, you

  538. have to be honest and let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart.

  539. You think you're guarding your heart?

  540. But you really are hardening it because when you guard your

  541. heart, love can still go in and out.

  542. When you harden it, you actually can't let anyone in, and you

  543. still need to understand that you can let people in your.

  544. Heart. Without them having your heart,

  545. that's. Right.

  546. Understand what I'm telling you. You've learned and you have to

  547. go all the way back to where you learned how to be strong.

  548. Most of us didn't learn how to be strong in a Kingdom manner.

  549. Most of us, trauma taught us how to be strong because we are

  550. naturally wired to survive our body automatically.

  551. It sends us signals. It it, it guards itself.

  552. It protects itself. It heals itself.

  553. So when you went through whatever you went through, when

  554. you got in that breakup, that relationship, what you did is

  555. you had to harden your heart, especially when you don't know

  556. better. There's a grace for hardening

  557. for an ignorant person because you know no better and that's

  558. God's way of allowing you to make it through till you meet

  559. him. I can't guard my heart a God way

  560. when I don't know his way. So some of you as young kids had

  561. to make it through some very traumatic experiences.

  562. Some of you have been hurt really bad, Some of you have

  563. been abandoned, Some of you have been, you dealt with church hurt

  564. leaders and and people have have hurt you and spouses have hurt

  565. you, right. And sometimes when you're giving

  566. people a second chance, you're giving them a second chance with

  567. a hard heart, and it's not really a chance.

  568. If it's from a hard place, quite frankly, if your heart is hard,

  569. they don't have a chance. Because you see, you see out of

  570. a hard place. You're not seeing out of an

  571. unconditional place. So you are loving while bracing.

  572. Jesus did not brace himself. He completely gave himself while

  573. being hurt. And what you don't understand,

  574. you may have had to harden your heart for one reason, but that

  575. doesn't make it OK. It doesn't make a safe place for

  576. God's blessing. And the danger is the devil can

  577. harden your heart over here because he knows you're called

  578. over here. So you walk into a church with a

  579. hard heart because you have a perception of right.

  580. So somebody teach on giving automatically your hard heart

  581. says be careful. That's the prosperity.

  582. Preacher. Right.

  583. Media shows you certain images of certain cultures.

  584. So when you come across certain cultures or ethnicities, you

  585. automatically brace yourself for what your perception believes

  586. them to be. So you don't let people in until

  587. you scout them out. Jesus said while you was yet a

  588. Sinner. I gave you my life and and you

  589. can guard your heart and not harden your heart without.

  590. Let me do it this way. The difference is boundaries

  591. versus walls. God has boundaries but he don't

  592. have walls. He tears walls down.

  593. Boundaries are do it for everybody.

  594. And then when people don't have boundaries, ain't it funny how

  595. you're hard in your heart for certain things, but you don't

  596. have boundaries for other things, right?

  597. You'll be like, you ain't going to talk to me like that.

  598. But then the music you listen to be drop dad, right?

  599. You get what I'm saying, Slap. You get what I'm saying?

  600. It's it's funny how we'll be hard towards some stuff and

  601. right we'll be hard towards a parent trying to love us that

  602. pay for everything. But we won't have no boundaries

  603. with our boyfriend. You get what I'm saying?

  604. You got an amazing dad who's trying to take care of you, but

  605. then homeboy ain't got to have no standards.

  606. You you harden your heart towards your parents, but lower

  607. your standard towards some dude that's just or some girl.

  608. You get what I'm saying? It's it's weird how we could do

  609. that. And we play with standards and

  610. boundaries and and walls. And we we roll up the limousine

  611. window on who we want to. And then we'll let people sit in

  612. the limousine that we want to and and we'll go on rides with

  613. people we want to and we'll let certain people in our heart,

  614. even if they toxic. How do?

  615. You How do you lower your standards for toxicity but raise

  616. it for accountability? Be careful while you're guarding

  617. your heart, you don't hearten your heart, Roberts 4 says.

  618. Keep vigilant watch over your heart.

  619. That's a militant word. That's where life starts.

  620. And when we're talking heart, we're not talking.

  621. Baboom, Baboom, the Baboom, Baboom, Baboom feels the pain of

  622. the real heart. Your soul, your suitcase, your

  623. thinker, your feeler and your chooser.

  624. Guard your heart. That's where life starts.

  625. Then the Bible says in the message, So above all, guard the

  626. affections. What has your affections?

  627. I tell my Garner and I tell my kids like, do you know the price

  628. of your affections? No, no, no, ain't no exclusivity

  629. relationship. As a teenager, I'm sorry parents

  630. who allows it instead of saying it's OK to go out and have fun

  631. and like somebody. But as a dad, I'm supposed to

  632. give your heart away. I'm supposed to give you away.

  633. As a son, let me guide you so that you don't break a woman's

  634. heart. I'm going to support a 16 year

  635. old to exclusively take a young girl.

  636. And I know my son is not ready to take her father's spot.

  637. So my job is OK. You can like her.

  638. I get it. I'm glad you like her.

  639. But hey, when you go to their movies, go with a group of

  640. friends like it's good. Talk to me about what?

  641. What's going on? What you feeling, Dad?

  642. I want to. She wanted me.

  643. Hey. Hey.

  644. But son, here's the price of that.

  645. When you have sex with a girl, this is what happens.

  646. And this is where her feelings go.

  647. Are you ready to handle those feelings?

  648. Hey, how's her relationship with her dad?

  649. Does she honor her dad? Does she honor her parents?

  650. What's her standards? What's her morals?

  651. What is she? Man, this Northern American way

  652. of raising kids to just let them figure it out They self got you

  653. When you see God, let me tell you.

  654. Now here's the key. My kids going to do whatever

  655. they want to. So since they going to do

  656. whatever they want to do, let me just tell them what I'm supposed

  657. to tell them because I got to give an account for raising my

  658. kids in the way they should go. Hallelujah.

  659. They pay attention, pay attention for they affect all

  660. that you are your affections of your heart.

  661. They affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of

  662. your innermost being. Are we teaching our kids how to

  663. guard their heart? Are we teaching them to give it

  664. away? And then if you get hurt, we

  665. hear for you. Or from there flows the

  666. wellspring of life. But God told Samuel, looks

  667. aren't everything. Are we teaching our kids how to

  668. assess a heart? Don't be impressed with his or

  669. her looks or they stature. I've already eliminated him.

  670. That brother went down the whole sibling line and God said I

  671. don't want him. Yeah, be fine to them, but I

  672. don't. I don't want him.

  673. God judges persons differently than humans do, men and women.

  674. Look at the face. I'll eat my.

  675. Oh, girl, you see. Got the men at the gym just

  676. working overtime just to show you a little body, man.

  677. I can't sit in the gym that long, man.

  678. I'm like guys, guys be like. And then you throw some girls in

  679. there, you know, You know, Andrew, they can't even move

  680. just walking around like this holding a little bro DJ.

  681. God looks into the heart. It is a dangerous time that

  682. we're in that we don't know how to look past the physical.

  683. We have to make a choice of who and what will be allowed to nest

  684. in our hearts in this season. We have to be very selective and

  685. wise in who and what we allow to nest in our hearts.

  686. Like today, not next week, not after I read a book like

  687. tonight. You have to make a choice that

  688. some stuff you allowed in your heart.

  689. You will no longer let it in your heart, at least until

  690. you're strong enough and you have boundaries.

  691. Boundaries are beautiful because it does some sifting for you.

  692. Boundaries keep you from having to repeat yourself.

  693. You just got to repeat the boundary for again, the

  694. scripture says to you people, if only today you would listen to

  695. his voice. Don't make him angry by

  696. hardening your hearts as you did in the wilderness or the last

  697. season. In this new season, you got to

  698. have a tender heart. Is it?

  699. Is it? Is it risky?

  700. Absolutely. Is he vulnerable?

  701. Absolutely. But a vulnerable heart is a

  702. healthy heart. It's a healthy heart, Elijah

  703. challenged the people. How long are you going to sit on

  704. the fence? If God is the real God, then

  705. follow him. If the world is the real world,

  706. then, then, and the real God then.

  707. Make up your mind today. Forget a New Year's resolution.

  708. Make up your mind to follow God or not not be religious and just

  709. go to church. Follow.

  710. God, nobody said a word. Nobody.

  711. Made a move. Because it's a serious decision.

  712. You go on, he says. How long will you hesitate

  713. between two opinions? He goes on to Deuteronomy and

  714. says I place before you life and death, blessing and curse.

  715. Choose life, I suggest to you so that you and your children will

  716. live. Your choice of how you choose to

  717. live will have generational ramifications.

  718. And then I saw this a long life settled on the soil that God,

  719. your God, promised to give your ancestors, the soil, the soil.

  720. Not everybody will be land owners or soil owners, but you

  721. do have a soil that you have responsibility for and it's

  722. called your heart. And then we've been reading this

  723. scripture. For a long.

  724. Time Haven't we Love Quest. Make the road straight and

  725. smooth. A highway fit for our God.

  726. I want you to see this part highlighted.

  727. Clear out the rocks. Clear out the rocks.

  728. Clear out the rocks. Understand.

  729. Clear out the rocks. Shout it out.

  730. Can you? Can you?

  731. Can you just? No, no, that don't mean say it

  732. dude, that's fine. You can say it and if you want

  733. to can y'all just make a nice little Just just going to play

  734. with the play DoH for right. Play DoH right now.

  735. Clay DoH whatever you want on Waco.

  736. Whatever say clear out the rocks you see.

  737. Listen, listen. Get the road ready.

  738. Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

  739. Repent means turn. It means this is the scripture

  740. as well. It means get the stones out your

  741. heart, unhearden your heart, turn away from wickedness, clear

  742. out the rocks, and then we go. Matthew 4 from the time on that

  743. Jesus began to proclaim his message with with these words

  744. keep turning away because the Kingdom is now accessible and

  745. what's important is to remember he's saying turn away because

  746. the Kingdom is accessible or it's available for you.

  747. Why is he saying repent? Why is he saying get the stones

  748. out your heart? It's because when they asked the

  749. question about where's the Kingdom coming from, he says the

  750. Kingdom is not discovered in one place or another for God's

  751. Kingdom. Realm is already expanding.

  752. Where within some of you? Why some of you?

  753. Because not everybody got the stones out of their hearts.

  754. And with a hard heart, Kingdom can expand, he says.

  755. The Kingdom is within you, in your hearts.

  756. Why do you need to have your heart ready?

  757. Get the road ready. It's your heart.

  758. Because your heart is the road into the earth.

  759. Your heart is the road into the earth, and here's where it

  760. lands. Then he said to them, if you

  761. don't understand this parable, how will you understand anything

  762. I'm saying? Because he said, I speak through

  763. parables so that whoever has ears, let them hear.

  764. Whoever has eyes, let them see. If you really want to see God's

  765. truth, you are going to have to live and look in such a way that

  766. you're going to have to deny self.

  767. You're going to have to fast and pray.

  768. You're going to have to ask the right questions, and it's going

  769. to. You have to be right.

  770. By revelation, the farmer sows the message of the Kingdom.

  771. Everything God has for you starts with a sown word.

  772. Right. This is, this is.

  773. I asked my man to bring me some seeds this morning, and I love

  774. how his little young mind was. The brother brought me sunflower

  775. seeds and I'm looking for plant seeds, but we going to use them

  776. anyway. So the message is sewn week

  777. after week in the church like this, man.

  778. You get word on Monday, you get word on Tuesday, you get word on

  779. Wednesday, you get word on Thursday, you get word on

  780. Friday, You get what I'm saying. I'm sorry.

  781. Guest services, I'm sorry. You get word all week.

  782. You get word coming in different kind of ways, different type of

  783. voices, right? And where is it falling?

  784. It's falling, right? And even between the mats and

  785. here is different types of soil. You didn't hear that, did you?

  786. That's a hard heart. They're going to have to look

  787. for that. I want.

  788. I want you to listen, right? But too many, too many times we

  789. come to church because we think we have to and it's some good

  790. word that happens. So you want to know why we

  791. worship for an hour so we can soften this because when it's

  792. like that all the enemies like 12345678 hey but he but but, but

  793. if it was on at least a different type of soil he'll

  794. have to right? He got a.

  795. He got a He got a feel for it. You get what I'm saying.

  796. So when we're worshipping, it's so we can, I'm not worried.

  797. That's why we can't just give you 3 songs and and then this

  798. perfected message and it's perfected when it's LED because

  799. they and This is why we do music in between because there's a

  800. word that goes forth and then what we're trying to do is

  801. through the music and having these moments of breakout.

  802. It's it's just get it in there get it deep.

  803. Listen I'm really a farmer not just a shepherd and I'm anointed

  804. to farm and so I'm killing it. I don't mind if you leave the

  805. church because it takes too much time to till.

  806. But if people do their own tilling and come to church

  807. ready, we don't have to take as long to get to your heart,

  808. because God's after the. Heart.

  809. So he says the message of the Kingdom, it's what falls on the

  810. beaten path, represents who hear the message, but immediately,

  811. immediately, immediately, like even during service.

  812. I see people get on their phone during service the word going

  813. forth and you what we eating later on steal the word, right?

  814. Because you hear the word it lands, boy, you got to write it

  815. because when you write it, it does something, it it, it, it

  816. engraves it on your memory. And then I can't just write it,

  817. but I got to look at it and then I got to look at it and get it

  818. in my mouth and then I got to digest it and then I got to

  819. protect it. And then some of you, it gets

  820. stolen as soon as you get in the car, and some of you get stolen

  821. as soon as you get. Home.

  822. Some of you might get stolen Monday.

  823. That's why we come to midweek, so we can get it back in there

  824. or replace it quickly. So he says Satan appears and

  825. snatches it from their hearts. He didn't snatch it from the

  826. farmer, he snatched it from the soil.

  827. I'm good. Thank God you come to a church

  828. where somebody is going to really, really like, not just

  829. throw seeds at you. Say bye, bye.

  830. No, we're trying to get this word in your heart so you can be

  831. transformed and he says. And what is sown on gravel?

  832. Right. You see?

  833. You see that? I mean one day we're going to

  834. have like big displays and stuff.

  835. You get what I'm saying. But when we look at gravel,

  836. gravel is is, it's loose, right? It's a lot of places and it and

  837. it could get the sea, can get lost in the gravel, but it never

  838. gets into the soil. Like having a gravel heart.

  839. Having a Stony heart is not right.

  840. Give me. Give me some.

  841. Clay, give me some. Clay.

  842. I love how you made a heart. Do you know what I'm saying?

  843. Laura was moving on your heart, huh.

  844. Right. You're like, this is how your

  845. heart. For some of you your heart looks

  846. right. It looks like that like

  847. bitterness is taking up space in your heart like and God is

  848. constantly like, can we just. Can we just get that out?

  849. And sometime that comes with accountability and hearing hard

  850. things. But I'd much rather hear hard

  851. things and make room for God than to do this.

  852. Leave my stones alone. Right.

  853. And then this is what happens. The farmer comes and it's just

  854. hitting stones. It it, it doesn't have a true

  855. place to dig into, so the devil's like I can't stop what

  856. God does, but boy, if I can get them.

  857. In a relationship that starts off super promising and they

  858. later hurt them. Because that kid doesn't have

  859. the support group you have. That kid doesn't have parents

  860. like you have. You see, you get it in there.

  861. And here's the power while it's in there.

  862. This is made to nurture it. It just got to get in the ground

  863. and then the soil does what it was created to do, right?

  864. And so we go forward and it says that it gets in the gravel,

  865. Listen, who hear the message and receive it joyfully, right.

  866. That's why, like, I'm not like, I love when the people are like,

  867. like, a lot of they're always joyful.

  868. And there's some people standing up and like, Oh yeah, and they

  869. dance with me. That's what we supposed to do.

  870. That's what we supposed to do, because look what happens.

  871. But because their hearts fail to sink a deep root, this is

  872. important. They don't endure for long.

  873. So receiving it joyfully is good, because I at least endure

  874. for a while. But we got to we got to begin to

  875. lengthen the time we know how to endure or we can't endure, so

  876. they don't endure for long. This is why you don't endure for

  877. long. And this how you know how far

  878. the seed is went for when trouble or persecution comes.

  879. It don't come because people really hate you, but the enemy

  880. that's using. Them is coming for the seed.

  881. It's like these sunflower seeds or any seed.

  882. The potential is in the itty bitty seed and you gotta some

  883. season spend time away from hate to spend time away off of social

  884. media so you can allow the seed to grow to a point where it's

  885. too late to damage it. Can you withstand a season long

  886. enough so a seed can produce fruit?

  887. Now it's too late because your seed had babies.

  888. Now instead of messing with one of us, you messing with, right

  889. We we got to endure through this building process because if we

  890. endure through the building process, there's hundreds of

  891. more of us coming. So the enemy want to try to

  892. discourage us with delay in the building process and building

  893. permits and see, no, no, no, no. But we've went through a period

  894. of exercise where we pastor T and Pastor Julia was proven

  895. through the pandemic. Not knowing the pandemic was

  896. preparing us for the city. You you notice how God didn't

  897. give us nothing until we passed and we was faithful over

  898. somebody elses? But when trouble came, it says

  899. they immediately wilt away. And you wonder how people

  900. listen. You don't get offended.

  901. See em. We don't get offended when we

  902. see people. Who are like whoo I'm on your.

  903. Team. And then one day you don't see

  904. em. It speaks to the soil I'm

  905. talking about when you ain't did nothing wrong.

  906. What is sown amongst thorns? Thorns won't get that out for me

  907. represents those who hear the message, but they allow the

  908. cares of this life and the seduction of wealth and the

  909. desires for other things to crowd out and choke the message

  910. so that they produce nothing. This is the people with unkept

  911. weeds in their heart and thorns. And when I think of thorns, I

  912. think the Lord is saying people that don't let the word get too

  913. close to a more accountability order.

  914. Divine leaders in your life. You just keep them at a

  915. distance. Keep them at a distance.

  916. You keep your thorns up and you keep your thorns out because

  917. you're too afraid to let go of the cares of the world and your

  918. selfish ambitions. Not knowing that selfishness

  919. will always choke out the word. And you produce nothing but what

  920. is sown on good soil. Should have got some good soil.

  921. It represents those who open their hearts.

  922. That's me, is that we got anybody over here That's like my

  923. heart is open. They open their hearts to

  924. receive the message, and their lives bear good fruit.

  925. Some yield a harvest of 3060 even a hundredfold.

  926. This is based on levels of faith.

  927. An open heart is what God is after.

  928. Those sown on good, well adapted soil are the ones who hear the

  929. word, receive it and accept it and welcome it, and bear fruit.

  930. Here's what I need to tell you. Your soil is no good if you

  931. church hop. Your soil is no good if you

  932. can't get rooted in a church home.

  933. Your soil is no good if you're offended with the farmer.

  934. So if you're offended with the farmer, it doesn't matter how

  935. much you sit in church and say that was good, but it won't be

  936. good for you because you can't get over whatever you're

  937. offended about. We, our hearts must be tilled

  938. for every season, and every season is meant to have a

  939. tilling patch taking us from glory to glory.

  940. Every season will have a moment in it where God needs your heart

  941. tilled. Every season, every season.

  942. The goal is you, not it. Hated by family, left for dead

  943. by siblings, accused of rape. Forgotten in prison.

  944. He still had a heart for his siblings that left him for dead.

  945. My question to you is how is the soul of your heart?

  946. Where is your heart at? You got bitterness anywhere in

  947. your life. You have unforgiveness anywhere

  948. in your life. Do you have a hard heart versus

  949. A? Guarded heart.

  950. You have boundaries or do you have walls?

  951. What, what, how? How does your heart really look

  952. tonight? Are you willing to say, Lord,

  953. come in and do heart surgery and get these stones out my heart so

  954. you can make room for seeds? See some of you that you can't

  955. even see it. So you got to spend a season so

  956. God can dig in there like, oh there's another stone And then

  957. there's seasons where his hands he will do this in your life and

  958. you like can we just get on to the blessing?

  959. And he's like, no, I'm rubbing up against you.

  960. I'm putting you in some circumstances.

  961. So you know, the coast is clear for me to come in 2024.

  962. Everything you've been through, Troy, everything you've been

  963. through, Annabeth, every challenge you've been in Bianca,

  964. every everything that we've been through has been God preparing

  965. your heart. What you're going to find out

  966. before this year is over is that you are moldable, and what God

  967. wants is moldable Children. Not resistant children, but

  968. children that will. Get in the hands of the.

  969. Potter. And let them shape their lives.

  970. And in every season there's a different form that he may need

  971. you to be. But OK, PT.

  972. And this is what people don't understand.

  973. I'm sorry if being LED is inconvenient to some people, but

  974. I've given my life to the Lord. And when you get the stones out,

  975. then I'm on the Potter's will, not yours.

  976. And I don't know about you, but you should follow leaders who

  977. are in the Potter's hands and on the masters time.

  978. Stop trying to get people in your hands.

  979. This you want to do this to people.

  980. Shape them around your time and your schedule.

  981. And God said, I promise you what you trying to shape up?

  982. You ain't going to want it. Our question is.

  983. If you were. Honest.

  984. Can God do this with your heart or you?

  985. Is your heart like this towards your spouse all right?

  986. Or does it look like this? All right, Looks like this.

  987. But it's the moment something poke at it that's revealed right

  988. when things are all good, you lovey dovey, You say all the

  989. nice things right, but the moment they rub you the wrong

  990. way. Oh, there that stone go again.

  991. No. No, no he didn't.

  992. Die so we can cover the stone. He died so he can remove the

  993. stone. Papa was a Rolling Stone.

  994. I don't know about you tonight, but I feel some people in their

  995. hearts are like, I'm scared. I don't know how it's going to

  996. look. There's some of you in here.

  997. You've never had this because here, here you go.

  998. To your credit, you've had to be so strong, but but the same way

  999. that we had to lead differently out of Covic than being in

  1000. Covic, there's a way you have to live out of trauma than in

  1001. trauma. And I'm here to tell you, if you

  1002. can believe me, that your trauma is over and has been defeated,

  1003. then you you. Actually.

  1004. Have a new heart and a new life to live, waiting for you.

  1005. We were in the back and a man right here was helping someone

  1006. with some back pain and he was talking about how he did some

  1007. release work on a few people. But one person in particular,

  1008. and and help me if I'm wrong, he released whatever was going on,

  1009. but the person couldn't feel the release or the results of the

  1010. release. So then he did it again.

  1011. And I think you had her do an exercise or something where not

  1012. only was she doing this, but she had to lean into the trauma and

  1013. then it was released. Because your body, although

  1014. something is released, it will hold the memory, am I right?

  1015. It will hold the memory. So you are responding to a

  1016. memory versus a fact, right, 'cause you're you've been

  1017. holding on? You you get what I'm saying.

  1018. You have to understand the way this looks.

  1019. Right. Let me let me do it this way.

  1020. Right. This is the way it looks.

  1021. You got it. It's the way it looks.

  1022. One day we'll have cameras, big old screen, and you, the camera

  1023. going to zoom up and it's going to be.

  1024. But I ain't got to do this right.

  1025. This is the way it looks. This is the way.

  1026. No, no, no cameras. Not for people at home, but but

  1027. it's going to be on the screen. You know what I'm saying?

  1028. But for you at home. This is the way it looks you got

  1029. it. Is this helping anybody?

  1030. OK And what happens is the release work happens.

  1031. Help me Lord, make this work. You have really been released.

  1032. What you're experiencing is the whole and God's like, no, now I

  1033. can feel it. You know what I'm saying?

  1034. And and So what you're experiencing right after freedom

  1035. is vulnerability because technically it hasn't been

  1036. replaced. Because you might not have the

  1037. new language, you might not have the scriptures, you might not

  1038. have the new relationship. You might have just got somebody

  1039. out of your life or a thought that's been there a bondage

  1040. this. You've been there for so long,

  1041. so you haven't gotten the replacement.

  1042. So you're experiencing this, and the temptation is.

  1043. To go back and fill it. That's why it says that the you

  1044. got free and the enemy came back and said, let me go back home to

  1045. my house. And he looked in the windows and

  1046. he saw it was still available because you didn't feel it.

  1047. And it came back seven times stronger because the devil

  1048. remember the last time he got kicked out.

  1049. So he like this time I got to come a little stronger and get

  1050. deeper roots. That's why when it comes back,

  1051. it's stronger than it was before.

  1052. And I feel like there's a grace for you and there's a

  1053. courageousness for you to not be afraid of this.

  1054. No, filling it with alcohol, filling it with drugs, filling

  1055. it with pornography, it it really won't help.

  1056. The Lord is saying, will you allow me to take that stone and

  1057. I promise you, I'll fill the hole and replace it with an even

  1058. stronger muscle. I don't know who I'm talking to,

  1059. but if you are honest, vulnerable, not emotional, but

  1060. you could be like that's facts. I know I've been always

  1061. protecting myself because I have had to and that's how my parents

  1062. had to like. I grew up in a family that had

  1063. to survive. If that's you.

  1064. Or, and you like. No, I want to depend on God.

  1065. I want to let go of the chains of having to have control.

  1066. I want to let go of that orphan spirit and being afraid of being

  1067. abandoned in this moment, If that is you and I could pray

  1068. with you. If I could pray with you and we

  1069. can pray with you. I really believe that God's

  1070. about to do a great work in your life, and he's about to do a

  1071. great work in your family's life.

  1072. But while I'm waiting, I'm going to get these stones out of my

  1073. heart. And every stone that comes out

  1074. of my heart, I'm getting stronger.

  1075. If that's you, I want to pray for you.

  1076. I don't care if you serve it. I don't want people serving with

  1077. stones in their heart. Lord your servant, ask the Stone

  1078. of Fear. We lay it down tonight.

  1079. The Stone of Anxiety. We lay it down tonight, Lord,

  1080. roll away the Stone of Lies. And we believe that we're not

  1081. good enough. That's a lie and we won't make

  1082. it. That's a lie.

  1083. I'm not qualified. That's a lie.

  1084. And I'm not worth anything good. That's a lie, and I'm not worth

  1085. living. That's a lie or I'm not loved.

  1086. That's a lie. Tonight, Lord, your children are

  1087. here to lay our stones down. And if that's you tonight, if

  1088. you have any stones to lay down. Stand to your feet.

  1089. I want to pray with you, and I'm promise you if you don't.

  1090. Please, That is amazing. You need to be praying for us.

  1091. Some of you I want. I want this to be a moment of

  1092. last. I really want you to, and I want

  1093. you. There's a grace to fill it

  1094. because you're about to get rid of it.

  1095. Hear what I'm telling you? There's a grace right now, and

  1096. the Holy Spirit's going to move on your heart and there's going

  1097. to be an emotion that comes with it.

  1098. But this is going to be a moment where you have permission and a

  1099. safe place to admit I am scared. And then you're within yourself.

  1100. I am scared of what? And then this is going to be a

  1101. place where you can admit safe place.

  1102. The Holy Spirit, I'm telling you why we're going to tap into that

  1103. is because he's here to take it. I am so angry.

  1104. I am so angry that you put me through that.

  1105. That person may be here. That person may not be here.

  1106. It's not for you to tell them that, but it's for you to tap

  1107. into that thing. No, I am still angry.

  1108. Why do you need to tap into it? Because it is a stone.

  1109. I am so angry with you. Yes, I forgive you, but I'm

  1110. still angry. You put us through that.

  1111. You may be in here. You like, man, I am so afraid to

  1112. dying because too many people in my community, too many people in

  1113. my family. I've had several people in my

  1114. family die of cancer or or or colon cancer or or or hepatitis,

  1115. any anything, brain tumors, whatever.

  1116. I am scared to death. See, those are things that cause

  1117. us in order to live another day. We got to harden our hearts.

  1118. I'm so angry. I am so ticked that my parents

  1119. left me. And when I say these things, if

  1120. nothing comes up, amazing. But there's some of you I I

  1121. here's one, I am so angry that my parents didn't take care of

  1122. themselves and that's why they're sick.

  1123. And now I got to deal with it. I'm so angry.

  1124. They weren't responsible with money or I'm so angry that they

  1125. beat me. I'm so angry and my husband or

  1126. my wife doesn't think it's important enough to let those

  1127. drugs go, let that alcohol go. I'm angry, I'm ticked.

  1128. I'm bitter. I'm afraid.

  1129. Whatever it is, I can't believe my children did that.

  1130. I can't believe that pastor did that.

  1131. I can't believe my uncle did that.

  1132. I am angry. Here's the scripture, Lord.

  1133. Lord, search my heart. And that's the heart.

  1134. The posture we're taking right now.

  1135. Lord, Lord, search my heart and you at home.

  1136. Lord, search my heart. Expose anything that's in my

  1137. heart. Even if it's a little Pebble,

  1138. may I not stand here with pride and and sit here and be looking

  1139. and asking the wrong questions? Huh.

  1140. I think I'm good. Is it anything wrong with me?

  1141. No, that's the wrong question. Lord, what do you see in me that

  1142. you want? That's the question.

  1143. That pride. That fear, That ego.

  1144. I'm scared for my family back home.

  1145. I'm. I'm scared I can't come through

  1146. for my family. That's you in here, man.

  1147. Just surrender it all and lift your hands.

  1148. Or you can bow to your knees. Or you can come to the altar.

  1149. If it's too late for you, you can go home, do whatever you got

  1150. to do. Your altar can be in your car,

  1151. Whatever you got to do. But we will not get out of these

  1152. 40 days without leaving some stones behind.

  1153. I want you to put your hand on your neighbor's shoulder because

  1154. you don't know they're processing.

  1155. I feel like there's some people in here who are afraid of

  1156. messing up. I think one of the biggest

  1157. things in our society these days is people that are afraid of

  1158. failing. But I ask the same question my

  1159. father asked Adam. Who told you that?

  1160. Who told you you was going to fail?

  1161. What standard has been placed on you that's so big that you feel

  1162. like it's unreachable? Are you afraid of hard work?

  1163. Have you lived trying to hide your lack of education?

  1164. We can celebrate all day, but I feel like love quest.

  1165. We're going to be able to celebrate in even a greater,

  1166. greater way, especially when the stones are removed.

  1167. Just take a few moments. I want you to see yourself.

  1168. Everything that the Holy Spirit brings up.

  1169. When he brings it up. Say I lay it down.

  1170. If it's I lay it down. I lay that stone down.

  1171. I lay that stone down. I lay that stone down.

  1172. Some of you have a stone of shame.

  1173. You have a stone of shame. You're so shameful of some of

  1174. the actions that you've done. I want you to know you're

  1175. forgiven. Some of you are.

  1176. Some of you. There's a few people in here.

  1177. You are so hard on yourself. That's a stone.

  1178. The Lord's doing work right now, guys.

  1179. And if you feel that that you feel that in your belly, you

  1180. feel that he's that he's removing the stone.

  1181. Even if you're feeling sadness, some of you are feeling for the

  1182. first time in a while, come on in your marriages.

  1183. I I just pray that that love is not just restored, but there's

  1184. an increased grace in your marriage that you see your

  1185. spouse as. God sees their child.

  1186. Come on. Some of you have worked so hard

  1187. to make sure you don't end up like your parents did.

  1188. Let me tell you, that's a bad that's a bad motive.

  1189. I want to free you right now of being a workaholic because

  1190. you're afraid to fail. Some of you have been spending

  1191. money on education because you've had pressure from your

  1192. parents. I want to free you right now and

  1193. let you know, even if you went the opposite way.

  1194. As long as it's in Jesus, you will not fail.

  1195. I, I, I break the spirit of generational idolatry.

  1196. Lord, tenderize our hearts tonight.

  1197. Come on, tenderize. That's our prayer, Lord.

  1198. Tenderize our hearts tonight, Lord, you have access to our

  1199. hearts. Lord we.

  1200. Leave that gap. Open.

  1201. We leave that wound open for you to fill it.

  1202. This, this is, this is the greatest blessing you are going

  1203. to receive this year as wholeness.

  1204. It's not going to be the car. It's not going to be the spouse.

  1205. It's not going to be the great you are getting your wholeness

  1206. back this year. Some of you are going to

  1207. experience joy like you've never experienced joy before.

  1208. Yeah, come on, lift your hands up.

  1209. Lift your hands up. If you want my heart.

  1210. You got it. You got it.

  1211. Surgery takes a long time. I want to.

  1212. I want to help some people out. I want to help some people out.

  1213. Not so. I know people get mad at me

  1214. about you know, I I will not let up.

  1215. I remember one time my my pastor back home, Doctor G, he came to

  1216. me. He said, Boy, you need to smile.

  1217. More. You're dark skinned in and

  1218. you're tall, he said. And then this is what some

  1219. people that Y'all need to know. You look intimidating with a

  1220. Stony face. I don't believe people's default

  1221. face is frowning for no reason. That's your resting when your

  1222. resting face. It says, unhappy.

  1223. Let me help you. You got some stones in your

  1224. heart, right? Right.

  1225. Right when when I am supposed to be a display of the gospel.

  1226. I'm not saying I smile all the time, but my face is for sure on

  1227. the verge of joy I love. That how I see you every week

  1228. and you got a mean mug on your face and you expect me to trust

  1229. you? No, no, no.

  1230. Not when I pour joy into you. See, when I pour joy into you, I

  1231. know I got good seed. And when I'm not getting joy

  1232. from you stones, it means the joy that I'm sowing into you.

  1233. It's not finding rest when you come in a House of celebration

  1234. and the celebration hasn't yet come back.

  1235. It's not Finding Rest. Stones.

  1236. Stones. Lift your hands right where you

  1237. are. Why am I lifting my hands?

  1238. Because my hands up is signifying something.

  1239. You should get to a point where you're lovesick in.

  1240. Jesus, because he's lovesick with you.

  1241. I want to take the next 5 minutes and I don't know if you

  1242. have a piece of paper. I don't know if you have a

  1243. phone. Well, of course you got a phone,

  1244. but what stone are you laying down tonight?

  1245. Now, please be mature in this. If you're not ready to lay it

  1246. down, don't write it down. Just hold on to it.

  1247. Just hold on to it. But if you're saying I'm laying

  1248. this stone of fear down. I'm laying this stone of

  1249. resentment down. I'm laying the stone of jealousy

  1250. down. I'm laying the stone of envy

  1251. down. I'm laying the stone of victim

  1252. down. I need you to write it down.

  1253. Now the hard part about it being

  1254. written in your phone is, unless you want to get your whole phone

  1255. to the altar, ain't nowhere to lay it down.

  1256. We're done. It's the last part.

  1257. I guess just and there's going around with a piece of paper and

  1258. I'm totally fine. If you feel like you don't got

  1259. no stones or you want to live with stones, that's totally

  1260. fine. And when you finish, I want you

  1261. to say a prayer over it and I want you to come and lay it at

  1262. the altar. Elder John, can we get a bucket?

  1263. Because we're going just like we have these names for salvation,

  1264. we want to have a stone bucket. You have been listening to the

  1265. Love Quest International Church Sermon Podcast, and we're so

  1266. happy you're here. If you're brand new to Love

  1267. Quest, we are here to love all nations, equip the church,

  1268. mobilize the equipped and serve to stay tuned with everything we

  1269. got going on in the community. Follow us on IG at Lovequest

  1270. INTL. Church.

  1271. We out here? OK, so stay tuned.

  1272. We got more on the way. Welcome to the homecoming season

  1273. and you don't need another reason.

  1274. And if you don't know the drill, then you better learn the motto

  1275. Did you love Fix Man?